GRASS 7 Release Planning

• Release scope: complete demolition and reconstruction (new display architecture, new raster library, new ...).
• The SVN trunk corresponds to GRASS 7 (for access, see here)
• ​http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_7_ideas_collection (to be merged into trac)

Already implemented

• New features in GRASS7 (already implemented)
• G3d (volume) library and modules in GRASS 7 (finished)

Planning & ongoing

Trunk

• move ​http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass-addons/grass7/imagery/i.spec.unmix/la_extra.c (and la_extra.h) to lib/gmath/

7.0.0RC2 (to be released)

• #2409 - last call for options/flags/parameters consolidation
• Solve whatever possible from ​http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/report/19
• ​Blocker and critical bugs
• Update Release/7.0.0RC1-News
• Update Splash screen
• Test: svn checkout ​https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/branches/releasebranch_7_0 grass70_release

To be backported:

• ? please check

Relevant differences - to be clarified:

• v.select: code optimization, no bug fix: MM says not urgent
• various modules: %s= and %s= are mutually exclusive (r?)

Source code changes:

• Display library in GRASS7 (planning & ongoing)
• Raster library in GRASS 7 (planning & ongoing)
• Vector library in GRASS 7 (planning & ongoing)
• Temporal extension for GRASS 7 (core functions are implemented, ongoing improvement)
  • ​Introduction of temporal modules
  • ​Available temporal modules
  • ​Temporal Library API
  • ​Tutorials (user contributed content)
  • Temporal GIS Algebra for Raster and Vector Data GSoC project 2013

Documentation

• Use Sphinx for Python API: partially done
• Documentation: update HTML manual pages to more recent technology (see examples by Vaclav Petras) and #151

Blockers

No results

Further issues

• Open bugs concerning GRASS 7
• List Open Enhancement Requests

General strategy

7.0.0Beta 4 release: planned as last beta before RC1

• released, see Release/7.0.0beta-News

7.0.0Beta 1-3 releases

• See "New features" above and Release/7.0.0beta-News

• GRASS 6.3.0 has been released from the releasebranch_6_3 branch
• a new develbranch_6 branch has been created (for access, see here)
• a new releasebranch_6_4 branch has been created (for access, see here)
• ​Announcement (2008, GRASS 7 development started)
• branches/releasebranch_7_0 has become GRASS 7.0.svn
• trunk has become GRASS 7.1.svn

Trunk is undergoing (radical) changes.

• wxgrass development will continue for now
• wxgrass development will continue for now
• wxgrass development will continue for now